Trust on Purpose

Are you intentional about building, maintaining or repairing trust with the people in your life? Most of us aren’t, and sometimes important relationships suffer as a result. So much of what is right or amiss in those relationships ties back to trust, whether we realize it or not. We are dedicated to helping you become intentional about cultivating strong trust with everyone important in your life: the people and teams you lead and work with, and your family, friends and community, as well. In the Trust on Purpose podcast, we dive into everything that makes up trust, what supports and damages it. We unpack situations we commonly see with leaders, teams, organizations, and others we work with to show how trust can be strengthened, sustained, and repaired when broken. Listen in for conversations between two pros who care deeply about you being an intentional and masterful trust-builder in your life so you and your relationships flourish. We share pragmatic and actionable takeaways you can use immediately and deepen with practice. If you have questions or situations related to trust that you’d like us to talk about in a future episode, please email charles@insightcoaching.com or ila@bigchangeinc.com.

We'd like to thank the team that continues to support us in producing, editing and sharing our work. Jonah Smith for the heartfelt intro music that you hear at the beginning of each podcast. We LOVE it. Hillary Rideout for writing descriptions, designing covers and helping us share our work on social media. Chad Penner for the superpower editing work that he does to take our recordings from bumpy and glitchy to the smooth and easy to listen to episodes you are all enjoying. From our hearts, we are so thankful for this team and the support they provide us.

Contributors

Host

Charles Feltman

Charles has been coaching leaders for 27 years. An overarching intention in his work is that his clients live to their greatest potential as leaders and human beings. Today, his work is focused on coaching leaders and leadership teams; delivering leadership development programs; and helping people build strong trust at work. Clients include leaders and teams in global corporations to small and mid-sized companies, NGOs, and government entities.

Charles is the author of The Thin Book® of Trust: An Essential Primer for Building Trust, based on three decades of experience working with individuals and teams to build, maintain and restore trust. It has been read by thousands of leaders around the world and has been used by many more thousands of coaches, facilitators, trainers, and OD/HR/L&D professionals as a basis for their own work.

Host

Ila Edgar

Ila is a Coach, Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator, Relationship Builder/Connector, Trust Guru who brings 25+ years of diverse, progressive experience in leadership development and coaching. She is well regarded as a strategist and an implementer, with demonstrated success in engaging and motivating others, creating strong relationships, building capacity, inspiring innovation and building trust/psychological safety for teams.

As a difference-maker who is always willing to zig where others may zag, her values of connection and generosity underpin her approach to enable clients to identify goals, develop and execute practical strategies, and share her boundless energy, innovation, and enthusiasm to help objectives to be realized. Ila is a natural coach whose talents have been called upon as a frequent workshop facilitator, presenter, and speaker.

https://bigchangeinc.com

Guests

Guest

Amanda Blake

Amanda Blake specializes in scientifically grounded mind-body approaches to leadership development. She is the founder of embright, author of the groundbreaking book Your Body Is Your Brain, and creator of the Body = Brain course on the neuroscience of experiential learning. In addition to teaching about the art and science of embodiment, she works with progressive leaders worldwide to help them become their best self, enjoy life more, and make a bigger contribution. Once an internationally competitive athlete, Mandy is skilled at cultivating high performance in herself and others. She is a Master Somatic Leadership Coach and holds a degree in Human Biology from Stanford University. She’s also a longtime yoga enthusiast, mountaineer, musician, and celebrator of life.

https://embright.org/

Guest

Dan Newby

Dan has been fortunate to live, work, and travel in many parts of the world. These experiences showed him that all people are attempting to live meaningful lives and the richness we can encounter in the different ways humans solve their shared challenges. Dan is a coach, mentor coach, teacher, and author who is passionate about developing emotions as a practical life skill. He is the author of multiple books on emotional literacy and the co-creator of Emoli emotion flash cards. Dan’s vision is a world where emotional literacy is part of every person’s education.

Certified as a Professional Certified Coach with ICF.

Co-author of The Unopened Gift: A Primer in Emotional Literacy, The Field Guide to Emotions, Coaching to the Core, and 21 Days to Emotional Literacy and Dignity in Policing.

https://schoolofemotions.world/

Guest

Joseph R. Myers

I am a Trust Specialist at TrustByDistrust, where I help organizations and individuals with their fundamental search to trust in a culture of distrust. I have over 30 years of experience in communication, strategy, entrepreneurship, leadership, management, education, and program development, working with various sectors and industries.

I am also an author of multiple books on trust and community, including Trust Me, a practical guide for creating trust-based systems and cultures. I am a renowned speaker and consultant, and a Lead Narratologist at Narratology, a think tank that explores the power of stories and narratives. My mission is to lead a movement of trust and belonging, and to help people re-imagine, re-frame, and re-focus their culture and systems to foster trust, transparency, engagement, and loyalty.

https://www.trustxdistrust.com